Posted in Basic, beverages, tagged chocolate, food on May 30, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Chocolate is soul food for me, chocolate is the most delicious thing on earth. There is no equivalent to the experience of placing a perfectly shiny piece of chocolate on your tongue, letting it melt slowly in your mouth till it goes all around and then chewing it when it becomes too irresistible. I love [...]
Posted in kootu, tagged kootu on May 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Mor Kootu is a yogurt based gravy that is often used with a few vegetables - cabbage, ash gourd, taro, cucumber and vazha tandu (stem of the plantain). It’s not a raita, its not a Mor Kozhambu, or an avial. It has a distinct taste and personality of its own. Although I am not [...]
Posted in Basic, kootu, tagged food, kootu on May 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Vegetables simmered in a midly flavoured gravy which is usually lentil based is perhaps the closest I can get to describing what a Kootu is. Kootus are the goodness of vegetables with the best combination and right proportion of spices that don’t attack your taste buds with the sourness of a sambar. Kootus come in [...]
Posted in sweets, tagged truffles on May 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »
How incredibly absent minded can a person get? Today I skipped keeping the rice in the cooker and went ahead and religiously let the steam build and pressure drop only to discover that the rice pan was missing inside. It took me another 20 minutes to figure where I’d kept the rice - washed and [...]
Posted in life, vegetables, tagged aubergine, eggplant, roast on May 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I was allowed a lot of liberties as a child - like scribbling on the wall. Each time I learnt a new alphabet or number in my pre school, the first thing I’d do after coming home was to rush to my wall and scribble it out nice and big for everyone to see [...]
Posted in Basic, tagged how to, pasta on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If boiling water and preparing tea don’t count, then you can say pasta is my first ever kitchen experiment. In fact it was the only other dish (apart from stuffed baked potatoes) that I’d prepare on my own almost everyday as an evening snack when I was in college. Yes, you heard it right [...]
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